Polarization effects in electroweak vector boson productions

Abstract

The electroweak production processes of vector bosons, $e^+ e^- \rightarrow Z γ$, $γe \rightarrow Ze$, and $γe \rightarrow W ν$ are considered simultaneousely and in the Standard model the covariant polarization density matrices of vector bosons for these processes are obtained explicitly from one of the processes, $γe \rightarrow Z e$. The effect of the photon polarization as well as the vector meson polarization is considered and some special cases are discussed.